We have won the struggle against a
persecution started with a first prosecution twenty years ago and ended with
the eight prosecution on 17 October 2012

All of us acquitted because no offence
was committed! On 17.10.2012 the Court of Assizes of Bologna has
put an end to the prosecution on charge of subversive association with
terrorist purposes (article 270 bis of the Penal Code) opened nine years ago
against the (n)PCI, the CARC Party and the Association for Proletarian Solidarity (ASP) by deputy
prosecutor of Bologna Paolo Giovagnoli: all the comrades were “acquitted
because no offence was committed”!

The report of
what happened in the courtroom is brief, because the comrades decided to not
present themselves in Court. The preliminary objections and also the texts
cited by comrades’ lawyers were rejected, then the Court accepted only a single
witness (indicated by the prosecution), the deputy superintendent of DIGOS (the
political police) of Modena Alberto Sola, author of the information that according
to him was the base for the prosecution. The diligent Sola began babbling of weapons,
economic funds illegally collected, forged documents, occult structure, subversive
plans, etc. The Public Prosecutor Gustapane repeatedly asked him if the
investigations done lead to gain evidence of his claim and Sola has
consistently replied that “no, but ...” “No, but it seemed that they had the
intention to ...”. The Public Prosecutor concluded the examination by saying
that suspicions are not enough for the charges which the article 270 bis is
referred to. We need evidence of effectiveness and relevance of the facts. He
stated that also antagonistic ideologies must be accepted otherwise democratic
principles are canceled and asked the Court to confirm the judgment of
acquittal for lack of concrete evidence. Our lawyers joined him for such
request. After retiring for about half an hour, the Assize Court stated for
complete discharge.

In the square
(near the station of Bologna, one of the landmarks of State slaughters) we
denounced that the only real terrorists in our country are the Prime Minister
Monti, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, the manager of FIAT
Marchionne, the Pope Ratzinger with the retinue of their cronies and
accomplices: their weapons of mass destruction are the decrees, the laws, the
taxes that steal rights and resources of workers, of all laborers, of
pensioners and of all the popular masses. They are the freedom for corporations,
the trickle of companies that are closing or delocalizing, layoffs and job
insecurity. They are the finances of the Vatican and its banks, the fees that
the masses pay for the Vatican who repays with the daily work of moral pollution
in order to induce them to resign to this hell on earth. When in our country we
shall establish justice truly worthy of the name it will be these people to sit
on the benches of the accused to be judged by people’s courts.

We called to
participate in the NO Monti Day on 27 October in Rome to oust this illegitimate
and illegal government of bloodsuckers who rob the masses, send education and
healthcare down the drain, ravage the territory to meet at all costs and in
every way the lust for money of a bunch of bankers, financiers, speculators and
rich. We called to sign the referendum for defending worker rights, to power
the struggle for a “useful and decent work for everybody” because in our
country there is an immense work to be done: there are 20 million people who
work, we need at least as much to ensure the territory again, to clean up
polluted areas, to retrieve and place the public and private buildings, to run
decent public services, to produce goods and services necessary to the life of
families, companies and for collective uses: these are the great works useful
to the community and the country! We called to organize, coordinate and
mobilize ourelves to establish an emergency government of of workers and people’s
organizations able to launch a General Plan of Work, to eliminate
activities harmful to humans and to the environment by converting companies, to
abolish the debt (protecting small savers), to put under public control the
banks, to nationalize the FIAT and other large enterprises, to establish
relationships of solidarity, cooperation and exchange with other countries.

After
celebrating the victory with songs and slogans we marched to the station of
Bologna to lay a wreath in memory of the victims of 1980 fascist massacre
hatched by the state that killed 80 people. We shall struggle for them, too, in
order to break the veil of secrecy and complicity that binds together the
leaders who pretend to be in charge of finance, clergy, government, armed
forces and police, business (the vertices of the Papal Republic) and finally
truth will out and we shall do justice!

A victory for the whole communist
movement, the popular resistance movement and true democrats in our country, a
blow to the reactionary and subversive right wing.

It is not a brag
nor a stuck-up attitude. This judgment upsets the attempt to outlaw as terrorist
organizations the (n)ICP and the organizations of his caravan, that is to say
the ones who share his conception, line and strategy. The comrades on trial, in
fact, were not charged with specific crimes, but with belonging to the (n)ICP
and to organizations such as CARC Party and ASP that support and cooperate with
his plan to make Italy a new socialist country. It was an overtly political
process: if the attempt to condemn as a terrorist organization the caravan of
(n) PCI was scored, the way would be opened for the Courts to outlaw Communism
and communists. The equation communist = terrorist = outlaw could become
effective for any communist organization considered by the class dominant a
threat to their power. As our comrades under investigation have repeatedly said
in their statements in Court, there were at stake the freedom of association,
opinion, expression and propaganda (the democratic freedoms - or what remains
of them - won with the victory of the anti-fascist Resistance) of communists
and starting from communists of anyone who is or may become the center of
organization and mobilization of the masses to “not pay for the crisis of the masters.”

We are not able
to say who among the leaders of the Papal Republic has kicked off and pulled
the strings of the project. It is sure, anyway, that Giovagnoli did not act on
his own and in isolation. He had the active cooperation by people like
Francesco Gratteri, the policeman who led the repression against demonstrators
in Genoa in 2001, when Carlo Giuliani was killed. Along with Giovagnoli and
Gratteri, senior judges and other judges, leaders of the political police and
intelligence services , members of the Italian and French governments had
formed the “Bilateral Italian-French Group on Terrorism and Serious Threats.”
Availed itself of the complicity of the French judiciary (in the person of anti-terrorism
judge Gilbert Thiel) which in 2003 arrested and held in prison for a year and a
half comrades Giuseppe Maj and Giuseppe Czeppel and for six months comrade
Angelo d’Arcangeli. He relied on hired journalists who contributed to the
campaign of criminalization against “CARC and (n)PCI terrorists”. He was able
to throw a lot of public money (of the popular masses) around for searches,
wiretaps, surveillance, infiltration attempts, etc. He was backed by the Chief
Prosecutor of Bologna Enrico Di Nicola who appealed to the Supreme Court
against the nonsuit judgment rendered in 2008 by the Preliminary Hearing Judge
of Bologna Rita Zaccariello and when he sued some leaders and members of the P.
CARC and ASP for defamation against him (for having been called “new Torquemada”).
He was supported by the Public Prosecutor of Ancona (who sentenced at first
instance two comrades investigated for defamation) and by the Supreme Court in
the person of the General Attorney Giovanni Salvi who upheld the appeal
presented by him (although Salvi himself had dismissed an investigation against
the caravan of (n)PCI just in 2003, that is when Giovagnoli opened his prosecution).

The judgment of
the Court of Assizes of Bologna is a blow struck not only to Giovagnoli, but to
all the reactionary right wing on whose behalf Giovagnoli had opened the prosecution
to outlaw us in 2003. We have no illusions that this will put an end to the
subversive and anti-democratic projects of the reactionary right wing, but it
certainly is one more hurdle for the next prosecutions, it weakens all the
repressive judicial apparatus that threatens and hinders the resistance
movement of the popular masses.

Strong as we are
also thanks to this victory, we face head-on the other trials still carried out
against CARC Party and other organizations of the caravan of (n)PCI: in Bologna
the trial for “Cop’s Hunt” whose last hearing will be held on February 12, 2013,
at Ancona that for “defamation” of Giovagnoli (we did appeal against the
conviction at first instance), various prosecutions for anti-fascist activities
in Tuscany and in Campania for the struggles to conquer and defend the jobs,
for anti-fascist activities and for participation in bourgeois elections.

The “Two Legs Struggle” and “Breaking Trial”
pay! They are mainly our resistance to repression and the struggle,
the people’s mobilization and solidarity that led to 17 October judgment. In these
years, in order to face the judicial repression (not only Giovagnoli’s investigation,
but the political persecution that the Authority are carrying out for last
thirty years against our political area) and turn it in favor of the new birth
of the communist movement, we have developed

the line of the Two Legs Struggle:
initiatives of solidarity and mobilization of the popular masses and specific
actions among the sincere democrats;

and the turn of the trial into a Breaking Trial: to not
collaborate in the charade of “neutral” and “equal to all” justice “, but turn ourselves
from prosecuted into prosecutors.

Breaking Trial
means that we have not primarily to give the judges to understand that they are
mistaken and that the allegations are unfounded, to prove that we are innocent,
but to turn the prosecution into a trial to the authorities who violate their
own laws and against the interests of the popular masses that are legitimate
even if they are not recognized by the law. Both when the legal bluff is clear both
when who is on trial processed really did what he is charged with, when “there
is evidence”. They are not the real or invented “crimes” the actual content of
investigations and prosecutions, but to hit and isolate, to make desist from
fighting communists, revolutionaries, political opponents and those who
organize and promote resistance to the measures of blood, sweat and tears of masters,
governments, speculators and war mongers’ international community.

Giovagnoli has
tried to pass off the clandestine nature of the (n)ICP as a synonym for
terrorism “forgetting” Gladio
the Masonic lodge P2, the diverted secret services and parallel bodies, state,
military, commercial, banking, industrial secrets, massacres and other crimes that
punctuate the history of our country from war to date with their mysteries,.
There is nothing more clandestine than operations, activities, relationships
and real decisions of the leaders of the ruling class, of the worms hidden
behind the façade of the theater of politics.

It is going on a
profound subversion of the organization of our country, of its material
constitution even before of its written constitution still in force, at least
formally. The outcome of last June’s referendum on public water and other
common goods, the will expressed by 27 million people’s vote, not only has not
yet been implemented, but Monti’s government is openly violating it. In Susa
Valley authorities and police try to bend the “popular sovereignty” to the
interests of a handful of profiteers and speculators claimed to be “national
interest”, using the militarization of the area, police charges,
criminalization and arrests. The Constitution establishes local governments’
autonomy of, but Monti’s government deprive Municipalities and Regions of funds
for public services, want to tie their hands with the Single Treasury and the
Stability Pact and reduce them to the role of collectors on behalf of the
central government. The military intervention in Libya is the latest war
mission (though renamed “humanitarian missions”) that tramples and violates the
constitutional prohibition to resort to war as a means of settling
international disputes. The Defense Reform by the Minister Di Paola institutionalizes
this situation (“the Italian armed forces must develop the ability to intervene
quickly and efficiently even at a great distance from the homeland, they must
operate in areas of strategic interest”). The new order introduced by FIAT
manager Marchionne expels FIOM, the metal workers’ trade union federation, from
the company, pace the freedom of trade union representation and formally still
in force. Red areas, prohibitions and charges the police throw the freedom of
expression in the dustbin, the orders to resume work in fact limit the right to
strike. More than 10 years later, the political instigator of the massacre at
the Genoa G8 have not even been investigated. The fundamental human rights and
international agreements for the protection of migrants are not in force in the
centers where migrants are locked, in the Strait of Sicily. Casa Pound, Forza
Nuova and other organizations “of the third millennium fascists”, who have
returned to fill with blood Italy, enjoy supports, covers and complicity in
high places, even if fascism, as well as illegitimate, in our country is also
illegal. The Constitution places the work as foundation of society and the
country establishes the right to work and a decent wage for all adults, but our
country is becoming a graveyard of factories. Unemployed, temporary workers, cheap
labor, new forms of slavery are rising: money and wealth become the only
foundation of society, the only true law. The right to reinstatement on the job
of those who are dismissed without a just cause is an unbearable burden: the
will of the master must become law everywhere. In such a situation to rebel, to
disobey, to fight with no ifs and buts, it is not only legitimate, but also the
way to establish the only law worthy of the name, the one based on the
interests of the majority of the population.

Let’s strengthen and extend the class
and political solidarity, let’s make a united front against repression. The
bourgeois leftists who in recent years have given credit or have even worked
with police officers, policemen and inquisitors making scorched earth around
the “terrorists” of the CARC and the (n)PCI must draw a lesson from our battle
and its outcome. But even more important for us is that our battle and its
outcome will serve to strengthen and extend solidarity with those in our field
are attacked by repression among the masses of the people, among the most
advanced of them, among those who have the red flag in their hearts. The
criterion that must guide us is to set before everything the fact that we
belong to the same class, that we stay on the same side of the barricades in
the fight against the crisis of the masters and their system. Our criterion
must not be whether a comrade is “innocent” or not (and neither the ideological
and political divergences). The penal code was made by the masters to protect
their interests and maintain the popular masses subjugated. We must oppose masters’
penal code with the principle “everything is legitimate that serves the
interests of the masses, even if it is illegal.” Masters’ penal code is for
masters. Our solidarity cannot depend on it. Our solidarity must depend only on
the side of the barricade where somebody place itself: to make the popular
masses pay for the crisis or to make masters pay for it.

Judgment of Bologna and People’s Bloc
Government. Often people says the line of the People’s Bloc
Government is not right because the leaders of the Papal Republic will never
allow us to establish it, that they will use their police, their courts and their
power to prevent it. The judgment of Bologna confirms instead the opportunities
we have. The growing recognition by the bourgeoisie itself of the impotence to
cope with the worsening of the crisis and its devastating effects, together
with our initiative to build the People’s Bloc Government, exacerbate divisions
in the bourgeoisie and increase divisions and contradictions in the Judiciary, within
the police, the bourgeois parties and the clergy, the government officials,
etc.

Even now in the Judiciary, next to
Giovagnoli and Caselli, the judge who persecutes people struggling against the
High Speed Train in Susa Valley, who agree to actively use the “violent arm of
the law” against the communists and the popular masses, there are the Gustapane,
the Guariniello and others who are reluctant to do the same , to directly and
personally to violate the laws and the Constitution. Even now, even among the
police there are those who do not accept or are intolerant in front of the
dirty work and the infamous tasks that bourgeoisie gives them (or do it with
difficulty). Even now, there are representatives of the bourgeois parties and
even of the clergy who are against the policies of Monti’s government’s
policies and even in favor of the claims and mobilizations of the popular masses.
The government of popular organizations could play on these contrasts and these
divisions to implement its program. We can and must use these contrasts and
these divisions to build it today, the struggle to increase and strengthen the
confidence that is possible as well as necessary.

More generally,
communists’ task is not primarily to denounce enemy’s evil, his plans and his
plots, the devastating effects they have on the masses, the power that its most
reactionary forces have also among the masses (e.g. the alarm that “fascists
advance, the masses follow them”) Their main task is learning to see and to
show that there are cracks in bourgeoisie’s camp, to enlarge them and to use
them for our purposes, in order to successfully fight until up to victory.

The Third Congress of the CARC Party. On 3
and 4 November in Florence it will be held the Third Congress of CARC Party (see the
trailer). Now the pride for having won a long
battle joins the determination to move forward in the fight to make Italy a new
socialist country. The caravan of (n) ICP, which our Party is part of, does not
yet head large mass movements, does not yet direct large mass organizations.
The long persecution that the authorities have waged against us, however, is a
confirmation that we are on the right track, as we have written on the eve of
the Bologna process: “the only logical explanation for such painstaking”
attention “is that an authoritative part of the bourgeoisie believes the
caravan of (n) ICP is a threat to his power. That is to say they fear that the
analysis, strategy and plan it proposed are those required to advance the
struggle of the working class and the popular masses to “complete the work that
the first PCI did not complete: to make Italy a socialist country and thus
contribute to the world proletarian revolution “(the Founding Declaration of
the (n) ICP-October 2004).”

We conclude by thanking all
the comrades, workers and those who have supported us in various ways with
their solidarity in these years, the communist parties and organizations of
other countries that have been morally close to us (and in some cases even
during the hearings) in name of proletarian internationalism. A special thanks
to our lawyers who have contributed to this battle to defend democratic
freedoms and to bar the reactionary right and his plans subversive and
anti-democratic. Thanks to the family of our comrades under investigation who
never failed to lend their support, their encouragement: we hope with all our
heart that this victory could light (or strengthen) in them the fire of the
struggle to make Italy a country of true civilization, progress and democracy!

Let’s dare to dream, to fight and win!

Communism is our future!

Gladio a secret paramilitary stay-behind kind structure, promoted during the
Cold War promoted by NATO to contrast a possible attack from the forces of the
Warsav Pact.